Speeding car on Ike nearly hits trooper

An Illinois State Police trooper was nearly hit by a speeding car that clipped his vehicle during a traffic stop this morning on the Eisenhower Expressway, police said.

The driver got away.

About 2:30 a.m., the trooper pulled over a car on the eastbound Eisenhower's exit ramp to Sacramento Boulevard on Chicago's West Side. He brought its two occupants into the back of his marked squad car, with its emergency lights flashing, and started talking to them, with the rear door open.

Moments later, a maroon four-door sedan sped onto the ramp, hit the squad car's open door and continued to drive away, state police said. The sedan ran a red light before continuing south onto Sacramento.

No one was hurt, but state police said the trooper was a little shaken up. The car door sustained damage, they added.

Investigators are hoping surveillance video from the squad car could help them find the speeding sedan. No one was in custody as of this morning.